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Two of the recommended books, for third-graders and under, are Gloria Goes to Gay Pride ("A young girl participates in the Gay Pride Day parade," as the ad's website summarizes the book) and My Two Uncles ("A young child's grandfather has trouble accepting the fact that his son is gay"). This amounts to targeting kids for conversion to the Secular teaching on homosexuality. Incidentally, "targeting for conversion" is what the ad charges that Christian missionaries want to do to Jews.

Finally, since raising public awareness is the best way to counter conversionary efforts, it would be helpful if a nonprofit organization were established to educate the citizenry about the tendency of the Secular Church to overstep that precious line that is supposed to keep our public institutions free of undue church influence. Such an organization would be dedicated to protecting American civil liberties. You could call it the American Civil Liberties Union.

Oh wait, no, that's taken.

David Klinghoffer is a columnist for the Jewish Forward. His new book, Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History (Doubleday), will be published in March.

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Articles elsewhere by David Klinghoffer include:

The Jewish-Friendly Koran | A whole new context. (National Review, Dec. 19, 2002)

Religious Wars | U.S. Jewish groups and their anti-Christian hostility. (National Review, Sept. 6, 2002)

A Passion for Censorship | Mel Gibson's 'Passion' is no more inflammatory than the Gospels themselves--and it's unlikely to incite violence. (Beliefnet, no date)

Conservatism's Mensch | William F. Buckley, Jr., who founded the National Review and retired this week, leaves an important spiritual legacy. (Beliefnet, no date)

Other Christianity Today articles on secularism include:

Misfires in the Tolerance Wars | Separating church and state now means separating belief and action. (Feb. 24, 2004)

One Nation Under Secularism | France's peculiar aversion to public religiosity is rooted in a sordid history of sectarian violence. (Feb. 13, 2004)

The Wages of Secularism | New laws won't prevent another Enron. (June 04, 2002)

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January 2005, Vol. 49, No. 1